Catherine Woulfe is the editor of The Spinoff Books. She is an award-winning news and features journalist, and longtime books obsessive. She welcomes pitches of essays or reviews at catherinewoulfe@thespinoff.co.nz
You haven't seen sex written like this before.
179 entered; 40 made the longlist; 24 of those just bit the award dust. Here are the 16 that remain, with bonus analysis.
The new virus was said to have a 100% kill rate. But it left one woman standing.
Glenn Colquhoun on the powerful medicine of poetry.
On the release of a new Hunger Games novel, we looked back and marvelled.
In which we throw convention to the wind and simply tell you what we loved – and they're all local.
What were you buying as we hit December double digits?
He's one of our best-known comics. Why didn't he write a better book?
Victory Park is the first novel from Mākaro Press since August 2019, when they put out a little book called Auē.
Quite possibly the best NZ novel of the year, according to our books editor.
A review of the new Twilight novel, which is actually the old story, told from the perspective of vampire Edward Cullen.
Catherine Woulfe reviews Upstream on the Mataura, a memoir by Gore flyfisherman Dougal Rillstone chronicling his journey along the Southland river.
The Twilight author on gender politics, anxiety, and the dark experience of writing as Edward Cullen.
Four women share their experiences with perinatal distress, and how to get through it.
Thank goodness for Wendyl Nissen and her chooks.
On the release of a new Hunger Games novel, we look back and marvel.
Play along at home during the virtual awards ceremony tonight.
We ask a clinical psychologist why our attention spans are so completely shot to pieces – and how to fix it.
All I can do, now, is wrap him up in love and trust that the people who are looking after him are wrapping him up in love, too.
Ladies and gentlemen we have a horse race. Books editor Catherine Woulfe offers up some odds.
I had planned to write an unabashed rave review, and then another book landed in my letterbox – and I just couldn't read those stories in isolation from my own experience.
Here are the 40 books that made it, followed by some frank thoughts from our books editor.
Three Women is a fervent, scrupulous qualitative review of female desire. It’s also a lesson in commitment – and the powerful act of paying attention.
The loss of innocence, the revitalisation of te reo, the rising up of women and of LGBTQ rights – the decade has been a ride. Here are our pick of …
Arriving in bookstores now, New Zealand Nature Heroes is optimistic and surprising and all kinds of wonderful.
